You don't make decisions based on rain. Again, we just needed 3 outs from him. And your info about back 2 back days is incorrect and may not have been an issue if we had won.Quote:
Originally Posted by MetEdDawg
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You don't make decisions based on rain. Again, we just needed 3 outs from him. And your info about back 2 back days is incorrect and may not have been an issue if we had won.Quote:
Originally Posted by MetEdDawg
Very disappointed in the bullpen. Hooty gave us about as good of a start as we could have reasonably expected. The bullpen did not compete tonight. It was more of a steerpen than a bullpen tonight
Got to hit your spots to set it up, but yes our pitch calling is as predictable as the sun rising in the East in the morning. For some reason we have been successful with spin rate and power arms.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
If we don?t have either of those, teams tee off.
You had a great shot to win THIS one. You don't know what tomorrow will bring. Dumb to make it harder to win today because tomorrow may be even better.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
Exactly that Clark and Rowdey did not have good AB there with the game on the line and then Lemonis had a really tough choice there.
I think he knew the rain was coming, Smith had been solid the inning before and decided to keep him out there and either he'd do fine or the rain would come. But then he did the one thing we didn't want and walked their leadoff guy. I do think I might have stuck with him there to face their 3 and 4 but he's not as big a strikeout guy and I think we chased the K's too much there.
Unless we get a miracle finish we're just going to have to regroup, hope the bats are better tomorrow and hope Bednar has his A game again.
Agreed. Season is over. See yall next yearQuote:
Originally Posted by preachermatt83
Have they said a start time?
Gonna be something when they jump out to a 5-0 lead tomorrow and we never get to pitch Sims because we're never in the game. Going to make Lemo wish he had done this different tonight if that happens
Don't disagree. But you can't win with Sims in that situation and you get him max for 1 inning. If we score and make it 6-5, Sims is 100% in.Quote:
Originally Posted by CadaverDawg
I think the play on the fly was for Smith/Stinnett to get through the 9th into the delay and let MacLeod come in after the delay for long relief. Once Smith shit the bed and walked Antico, it became try and get the delay to come before we have to pitch. And it backfired.
I get it. You have to make a plan for all contingencies here. Long and short term. It's not easy. And they made the decision Sims wasn't the play tied in the 9th. I'm not gonna say that's wrong. They know this team better than any of us. If that's what they set out to do, that's their call.
I agree with this, at first I was anti bringing sims in but the anti sims crowd has this assumption we will be winning late in the game tomorrow. Sims means very little if we are losing. We should have brought him in. But lemo had a very short time to make the decision, why he makes the big bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
Couldn't you use that same logic for starting bednar tonightQuote:
Originally Posted by smootness
You can NOT blame Lemonis tonight. Guys have to step up. Throw strikes. Challenge the hitters. Offensively get some hits, score some runs. But for whatever reasons .... it looks like the pressure got to us tonight. Our go to guys didn't get hits in the clutch. Bullpen issuing walks.
Hopefully the nerves are claimed if we take a L. Tomorrow is a new day. State has beat these guys twice. They can win a third game.
I know its a dead horse but I still can't get over Rowdey losing that fly ball. I knew that would continue to haunt us. Cost us 2 runs that inning. Without that we have the lead and Sims can finish it.
Yes
Earliest game will restart is 12:15 per Rosebowl.
Bednar starts the game at 0-0 no matter what. Our chances largely ride on how well he pitches. Not the case with Sims, we have to get it to Sims.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
And my main argument for holding Bednar was never that he didn't give us a better chance to win Friday, it was that I liked our chances with Harding and if you win Friday, you get to pitch Bednar completely rested in game 1 Monday.
And that's exactly where we still had a very good chance to be if we go Sims there.
Not only that, but he choked with the bases loaded and left them off the hook.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
Tough night for Rowdey. He needs to make up for it tomorrow
Even if Lemonis didn't start Sims in the 9th why not bring him in to try and get 2 outs when TX had the man at 2nd?Quote:
Originally Posted by KOdawg1
Ive said this all year. I have never seen a staff so reluctant to go to its best arm. Its bafflingQuote:
Originally Posted by CadaverDawg
OK, I'm going to bed. Give it another shot tomorrow night.
Could be. Maybe sims gets us thru the 9th and we see the rain delay, but don't score. Then we potentially have a deciding game tomorrow with no sims. I just don't think the decision was as clear cut as youQuote:
Originally Posted by smootness
Well I am sending our boys all the juju still and hoping we can steal the win after the delay. Going to bed.
I just caught up on DVR.
So I guess Sims quit and left the team sometime in the last hour. Or perhaps he had a sudden heart attack. God rest his soul. His poor mother.
Yeah, they are really protective of Sims arm this year for whatever reason. Maybe they know something we don't.
But we just haven't had anyone else step up in the pen lately. The problem was the leadoff walk, at least make him get a hit. That changed the whole dynamic right off the bat.
Granted, the only reason we're even discussing any of this is because they walked a bunch of guys in the 8th. We made them pay by at least tying it and but couldn't finish the job. Then we gifted it right back and they took advantage.
We've walked 9 guys tonight. 6 of the 8 have scored. The 9th is on first.
Lemonis approached this game prepared to play tomorrow. Which is why we will be playing tomorrow.
In a tie game...9th inning...you just cannot under any circumstances give the first 2 guys a free base. That's just bending over and saying "Give it to me Bevo."Quote:
Originally Posted by Irondawg
I think Lem was banking on the wx delay. That was why he stalled when he did. Can’t blame him for not running Sims out in 9th, I believe if wx was not going to be an issue you would have seen him pitch. Still believe firmly along with the rest of all baseball managers and try to steal a win against TX ace. The horse was beat to death and I am not arguing with idiots about it. It was absolutely the right call to go Hootie who actually did a decent job, was left in too long though. Our hitters not showing up in middle innings will define this team. Hail State and finish the job tomorrow.
You're rightQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology
If we hit tomorrow like we hit tonight, we will go home. No questions about it
No freaking idea. Awful is all I can say. May have cost us a natty.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
I am always for winning today but if you can set it up to be absolutely sitting pitching wise perfectly for a three game set and you have a game to play with, YOU DO IT. Any tournament ball coach,player or hell even umpire know this. You can Monday morning QB it all you want, it is the way it is. The story was too many walks and our hitters chasing crap. Simple as that. Also, not catching a pop up that turns into lead off double doesn’t help either.
I think the biggest thing that plays to this is him leaving Hootie in for the 3rd time through the lineup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology
And I get it. It's tough to pull the kid. He's up there on the mound barking saying let's f***ing roll it coach let me f***ing roll it. You want to believe in the kid and give him a shot. He's done well this postseason.
But if it was a do or die game, Tullar comes in there 100% to face the two lefties. But he left Hootie in knowing if everything went to hell we still had tomorrow.
Once we saw that Vandy won it should have been Bednar gets the start and you close with Sims. Rocker was burnt today and Lieter will be burned tomorrow. It would be bullpen games for the first couple games in the NC for both teams. Instead we will burn Bed tomorrow and he won?t throw a pitch in the NC.
Fellas, keep enjoying this ride. I still think we are watching something special
I don't know anything, but our vibe doesn't look like we are there to dominate.
Ding ding dingQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology
Wanna bet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Maroonthirteen
This ride is not fun at the moment. Hopefully it gets back to the fun part soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by chef dixon
And invariably start packing our bags for home Sunday morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology